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Firefox Australis is Now Available in Beta.

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 21 2014, @02:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the keeping-designers-busy dept.

kef writes:

"The new Australis interface has finally landed in beta. Is this really a step forward or has the Mozilla user designers lost their mind once again? Sure, if you are ok with the default user interface and don't tweak it to suit your needs then the new UI is not too different from previous releases. But if you, like me, like to change the interface to suit your needs, then the new Australis UI will probably not rock your world, it certainly doesn't rock mine. I can no long get the stop/reload button out of the url bar, the forward/back buttons are locked next to the url bar and so on. Beta Sucks, anyone?"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 21 2014, @03:28PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday March 21 2014, @03:28PM (#19343) Homepage

    Mozilla's Firefox division stinks of an organization full of the developer equivalents of employees who shuffle stacks of paper and walk around all day in a bid to look busy because they are either unwilling or unable to do real work:

    " Alright, just released version 47, now time to work on version 48...Hmm, let's put the 'reload' button back down in the bottom-right corner, like it was in version 32. Okay, now I'll put the 'stop' button back to top right, and -- hmmm, -- maybe I should do something revolutionary and put the the tab bar at the bottom so it can be with the Windows taskbar. Man, I'm sure it's gonna piss people off, like every new release does, but they'll suck it up and use it anyway; gotta do something, because working on bugs and memory leaks is too boring and hard. "

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by tibman on Friday March 21 2014, @07:49PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 21 2014, @07:49PM (#19452)

    They have some cool research projects: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/ [mozilla.org]

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